Defining indicators and

developing Dashboards: South West Sydney Regional

Innovation Dashboard

FIELD Seminar – Paris, 21 June 2010

Dr Cristina Martinez-Fernandez

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Why a Dashboard?

The software can be downloaded from http://esl.jrc.it/dc/

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Addressing Local Complexity

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Step 1 – conceptual understanding

Step 2 – identify drivers

Step 3 – identify indicators

Step 3 – identify indicators

Step 4 – Build Dashboard (S-CE)

Step 4 – Build Dashboard (S-L)

Step 4 – Build Dashboard (S-A)

Regional Innovation Dashboard

Lessons and Challenges

• Visual tool for policy discussion

• Highlights issues of data systems

• Limitations of small number of cases

• Examining policy fields and generating indexes

• The issue of scale for analysis

• Horizontal analysis versus vertical analysis

• Resources